Critics see her as hostile to public education and indifferent to civil rights, citing her impassioned push for school choice and her signing off on the repeal of some protections for LGBT students, but Conservatives aren't as critical.

More than a third of U.S. states have created school voucher programs that bypass thorny constitutional and political issues by turning them over to nonprofits that rely primarily on businesses to fund them.
But the programs are raising questions about transparency and accountability at a time when supporters are urging that they be expanded into a federal program.